Hümpfershausen

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Hümpfershausen
City of Wasungen
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 13 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 425 m
Area : 13.3 km²
Residents : 418  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density : 31 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 2019
Postal code : 98634
Area code : 036940
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church

Hümpfershausen is a district of the town Wasungen in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in Thuringia .

Hümpfershausen, in the background the Thuringian Forest

geography

Hümpfershausen lies at the foot of the Roßberg in the Rhön .

history

The first documentary mention of the place comes from the year 1145, when Bishop Embricho von Würzburg confirmed the monastery Zella Hunfridishusen as one of his estates.

The Sinnershausen monastery on the outskirts was founded by a pious knight Gottfried von Katza . The Hümpfershausen settlement, consisting of the two farms Gossbachshof and Hopfenhof, and other places in the area were donated to the monastery. The monks who belonged to the mendicant order of the Wilhelmites were sent by the Weißenborn monastery near Ruhla and had set themselves the task of helping travelers and pilgrims.

Sinnershausen Monastery was devastated during the Peasants' War, set on fire and abandoned by the last monks. The Counts of Henneberg certain as sovereigns the secularization of real estate, the main building was largely destroyed by the fire and were demolished. The residents of the neighboring village of Lückershausen , now a deserted area in the Hümpfershausen corridor, suffered particularly from the forced labor of the monasteries, so almost all the farmers spontaneously joined the Werra heap . After the uprising was put down, the Lückershäuser prisoners were sentenced to death and their settlement was cremated. In 1611 the outbreak of the plague in the area around Hümpfershausen killed almost the entire population in five weeks, in 1634 an incursion by the Croatians and in 1637 an incursion by the Swedes were recorded in the church chronicle.

Hümpfershausen was persecuted by witches from 1617 to 1679 : three women got into witch trials , in 1679 Dorothea Abe was burned. The outcome of two processes is unknown.

The church was built in Hümpfershausen in 1603 . The first school building was erected in 1847. The place in the Amt Sand belonged to the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen from 1680 to 1918 . Since 1920 it has belonged to the state of Thuringia.

On January 1, 2019, the municipality of Hümpfershausen was incorporated into the city of Wasungen. She belonged to the administrative community Wasungen-Amt Sand .

politics

The local council from Hümpfershausen consisted of 6 councilors and councilors.

  • CDU - FW Hümpfershausen 6 seats

(As of: local elections on May 24, 2014)

The honorary mayor Manfred Kümpel was elected on June 27, 2004.

Culture and sights

  • Berghütte Hümpfershausen Cottage on a mountain west of Hümpfershausen
  • About two kilometers north of the village on a plateau on the wooded Gotteskopf there is a small fortification with a wall remnant to the north. It is believed that this is a prehistoric site.

Buildings

  • To the north of the village is the former Wilhelmitenkloster Sinnershausen , founded after 1290 . A small castle was built on the monastery grounds in the 19th century, which was transferred to the community after the expropriation of the owners after the Second World War and later serves as a children's spa and today as a state fire brigade school and youth hostel. A stone figure from the 14th century in a wall niche is said to represent the monastery founder Gottfried von Katza.

Volunteer firefighter

Small fire truck "Type Thuringia" of the FF Hümpfershausen

Hümpfershausen has a volunteer fire brigade, it owns a small fire truck type Thuringia.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Mötsch : Fuldische Frauenkloster in Thuringia. Regesta on the history of the monasteries Allendorf, Kapellendorf and Zella / Rhön (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series. 5). Urban & Fischer, Munich et al. 1999, ISBN 3-437-31126-3 , p. 330.
  2. ↑ Hümpfershausen in Rhon lexicon .
  3. ^ Georg Brückner : Regional studies of the Duchy of Meiningen. Part 2: The topography of the country. Brückner & Renner, Meiningen 1853, p. 96 .
  4. ↑ Kai Lehmann : Innocent. Witch hunt south of the Thuringian Forest. Over 500 researched cases from the 16th and 17th centuries. Wehry-Verlag, Untermaßfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813902-8-5 , p. 164 f .; Kai Lehmann: Exhibition "Luther and the Witches". Hümpfershausen area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; The persecution of witches in the Thuringian region (= publications of the working group for historical research on witches and crime in Northern Germany. Vol. 2). DOBU-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934632-03-3 , pp. 236 and 240-244, (also: Marburg, Universität, Dissertation, 2000).
  5. ↑ 2014 municipal council elections in Thuringia
  6. ↑ Michael Köhler : Pagan sanctuaries. Pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , p. 139.

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